Table: "Religious Groups, Members/Adherents, In Texas, 1990 "; pg. 7: Texas pop. (1990 U.S. census): 16,986,335; "Data based on reports from 133 church bodies. "; This figure is from MEMBERS column ( "Members " in this study includes only communicant, confirmed members with full membership status), not the more inclusive "adherents " column.

Table: "Religious Groups, Members/Adherents, In Texas, 1990 "; pg. 7: Texas pop. (1990 U.S. census): 16,986,335; "Data based on reports from 133 church bodies. "; This figure is from ADHERENT column ( "Adherents " defined as all members, incl. regular participants not considered as communicant.), not the more restrictive "member " column.

"Though there have been mergers in recent years, three main and seven minor Lutheran groups remain. The next two largest are the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod... and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod with 420,000 adherents. "

"The ELCA is now the largest of U.S.-based Lutheran bodies. Next in size is the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod... Third is the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with 416,000 members. "

"Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod is the product of a 1917 merger between the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Wisconsin & synods in Minnesota & Michigan... membership of 419,000 in 1,200 congregations "

Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod

USA

412,478

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1,252units

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1995

*LINK* web site for Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches (accessed 1998); [Orig. source: Source: Kenneth B. Bedell, editor, Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches, annual.]

Table: 1997 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches: U.S. Religious Bodies with more than 60,000 Members "; "...prepared for the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census... for the 1997 edition of the Statistical Abstract of the U.S. "

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